Barrie $10.60/bu

[Caveo]

Contract from Hovis UK for UK grown Barrie for 2010 is about $10.60/bu on the farm. Hovis now advertise that their bread is now made from 100% UK wheat. CWB delivered to nearest elevator (if only, my 3 nearest are all in North Dakota) for 2010 will be?

[ProFarmer]

This our checkoff dollars hard at work.

[rbrunel]

It would be interesting to know how Barrie yeilds in comparison to uk varieties. Are they paying a "premium" for quality or yeild difference. Or is this just the price of quality milling wheat in the uk?

[parsley]

Lots of 2010 flax varieties here with viterra/ugg having the first dozen or so on the list:

http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/plaveg/pbrpov/cropreport/flae.shtml

Good to have such a variety, Kinda like choosing a new car.

Need some hard sweating agent working hard to make registered seed compulsory at the farm gate,though to crank out really cool. Pars

[ianben]

Here is the UK contract as offered to me
Continuing from the success of 2009 crop, Rank Hovis are keen to lock growers into a contract for harvest 2010, and with the current weakness in the feed wheat market red wheat can once again look very profitable to the grower.

RED WHEAT - Can be sown from November to April
- Prefers moisture retentive soils
- Requires only 100-120 kg/hectare of Nitrogen (saving £100.00/hectare compared to conventional wheat)
- Is early to harvest (similar to Soissons when sown in the autumn)
- Yields 4.0 - 5.5 tonnes/hectare (highest yield to date 6.6 tonnes/hectare)
- Has outstanding quality—averages 17% Protein, 330 HFN and 79 kg/hl Specific Weight
- Retains its quality in difficult seasons (97% of crops have met contract standards)
- All samples that we have seen from the 2009 season have met contract standards
PROFITABLE - More profitable than any other wheat—£135/mt over feed wheat at time of movement
FLEXIBILITY| - Growers will be able to lock into their base price if they so wish